10 Rock Songs With Really Disturbing Endings

10. Polly - Nirvana

For most of Nirvana's career, you never really had to think too hard about what they were saying. Kurt Cobain always was of the mindset that lyrics were an afterthought, and would often be writing them at the very end of the songwriting process just to have some words to sing over his melodies. When he did decide to hunker down at write something meaningful though, it wasn't for the faint of heart.

Being an advocate of feminine rights for most of his professional life, Polly comes from a real life story that Kurt had read regarding a girl in Seattle who was kidnapped and tortured after leaving a show. By deciding to see her abuser as a person, the girl managed to escape relatively unscathed the minute that he let his guard down. While that story really hit home for Kurt, he flips it around in the song by taking the point of view of the torturer.

From the opening lines, you can tell that Kurt is trying to take on a character in this song, almost like he's trying to understand the mindset of someone who has no sense of morals. If anything, that just makes the tone of voice that he has in this song all the more terrifying. Not only is this man looking to torture someone else, but it almost sounds like he's going through the motions at this point.